Ed Kalecki

District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV in Boston on Friday, granting the preliminary injunction, follows a lawsuit filed last month by a coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general.

It will only apply to public universities and plaintiffs.

The federal judge said the federal government likely has the authority to collect the data, but the demand was rolled out to universities in a rushed and chaotic manner.

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President Trump Friday issued a memo ordering that the remaining Department of Homeland Security employees be paid during a record-long partial government shutdown impacting the agency.

Trump's move comes with lawmakers deadlocked on how to end the shutdown.

Democrats are seeking changes to Trump's immigration enforcement policies, but congressional Republicans and the White House have balked at those demands.

The president's directive, which he announced earlier this week that he intended to sign, led House Republicans to abandon talk of cutting short a two-week Easter recess to try to end the impasse.

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A second US Air Force plane crashed in the Persian Gulf region Friday, with the US already carrying out search and rescue operations from another incident in which Iran downed a fighter jet.

The A-10 Warthog went down near the Strait of Hormuz around the same time that Iran shot down a U.S.

F-15E fighter jet.

The lone pilot was safely rescued.

The U.S.

has rescued one of the two-man crew from the F-15 incident.

A search operation was underway for the second crew member.